Best Buy Canada and Chase Canada recently discontinued one of its co-branded credit cards. It appears that Best Buy is looking for a new financial institution to partner up with. It seems that it has decided on partnering with Desjardins to manage its…
Though Cyber Monday was really a marketing term originating from the United States, the marketing use of the term expanded to other countries including Canada. Basically on the Monday following the US Thanksgiving, you can find good deals by making purchases online. So today, I will recommend some of the top credit cards to use for making purchases on Cyber Monday.
First of all, if you already have the U.S. currency credit cards issued by Canadian financial institutions, I would use these credit cards for purchases made at U.S. online sites for sure. The Canadian dollar is extremely weak, so if you have U.S. dollars already available to pay off these bills, that you previously converted at a more favourable rate than today, then these are the cards to use:
This year, 2014, has been the year of discontinued products. In many of the cases, a credit card might still be available today, but disappear tomorrow without prior warning. In the following case, there is a 1 year warning. It looks…
With the discontinuation of the American Express TrueEarnings Card and the addition of the Capital One Platinum MasterCard, it was about time to update the previous list of top credit cards to use at restaurants.
Scotiabank Platinum American Express Card
To add to the long list of discontinued credit cards in 2014, it appears that Chase Best Buy Reward Zone Visa has now been discontinued. on the list of credit cards on the Chase Canada website. I am curious to know what the…
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Building a Credit Card Portfolio (around $500 spending per month)
Building a Credit Card Portfolio (around $2.000 spending per month)
For this third, and final, part of the Building a Credit Card Portfolio series, I
The sign up bonus on the Chase Marriott Rewards Premier Visa Card has always been 30,000 sign up bonus points on the Chase Canada website. However, the FlyerTalk forum has always has threads about getting the 50,000 sign up bonus points by adding a certain code. But now there is a public offer for 50,000 sign up bonus points and it seems to be permanent.
As I love travelling around the world, there seems to be a never-ending path for new things to see and learn about while I’m in these foreign countries. For one, I always feel there’s a need to experience the culture’s…
There are some Canadian financial institutions that issue United States currency credit cards, which means that you can pay your bills in U.S. currency. The benefits of having such a credit card is that you can convert your Canadian dollars into American dollars when the Canadian dollar is strong. So then you lock is the favourable rate. Leave the U.S. dollars in an account that you can use any time to pay off bills on the U.S. credit card so you won’t have to worry about any unfavourable currency exchanges at the time of using the credit card.
See also:
Building a Credit Card Portfolio (around $500 spending per month)
Building a Credit Card Portfolio (around $5,000 spending per month)
For this second part of the Building a Credit Card Portfolio series, I will focus on people who only spend about $2,000 a month on all their credit card bills put together. This is generally for small families of about 4 people, (2 adults and 2 children).